"Cache ID is hidden from other users"

[+colleda]

The above is recorded, in my statistics, alongside my closest and furthest finds from home. Why is that?

[+MartyBartfast]

Because if I could see the distance from those two points I could use them to work out where you live, if you gave your real home co-ordinates in  your profile.

[+colleda]

I'm not aware of my home coordinates being part of my profile, where would I see them? The distance could be in any direction could it not?

[+colleda]

Until last year my furthest cache find was in southern England. At the time I had cache finds way up in Scotland which were closer to home. It was interesting that earth curvature placed Scotland closer to home.

Edited March 10, 2019 by colleda

[Keystone]

1 hour ago, colleda said:

I'm not aware of my home coordinates being part of my profile, where would I see them? The distance could be in any direction could it not?

They are entered in your account settings.  The triangulation issue is one reason why the Help Center advises that it's just fine to enter a location *near* your home, like the center of town, rather than the coordinates for your actual home.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

On ‎3‎/‎10‎/‎2019 at 7:33 PM, colleda said:

I'm not aware of my home coordinates being part of my profile, where would I see them? The distance could be in any direction could it not?

 

No, it couldn't. If you have the distances from those two caches to your home location, you could draw a curved line around each cache at its distance.

 

Your place would be in one of the two spots where the two curved lines cross.

 

(Except, of course, if the two caches and your place were in a straight line, then, the curves would 'kiss', and if you zoom in, there you are. Wave "Hello".)

Edited March 13, 2019 by TeamRabbitRun
Word choice.